Task 2 - Coordination of Solar Heating and Cooling R&D

• Compilation of Background Papers on National Solar Heating and Cooling Programs
  January 1983 - PDF 0.71MB

Task 8 - Passive and Hybrid Solar Low Energy Buildings

• Design Information Booklet No. 1 - Energy Design Principles in Buildings
  July 1988 - PDF 2.93MB
• Design Information Booklet No. 2 - Design Context
  1988 - PDF 7.22MB
• Design Information Booklet No. 3 - Design Guidelines: An International Summary
  July 1990 - PDF 0.82MB
• Design Information Booklet No. 4 - Design Tool Selection and Use
  December 1988 - PDF 1.79MB
• Design Information Booklet No. 5 - Construction Issues
  August 1989 - PDF 0.68MB
• Design Information Booklet No. 6 - Passive Solar Homes: Case Studies
  December 1990 - PDF 6.19MB
• Design Information Booklet No. 8 - Post-Construction Activities
  August 1989 - PDF 0.38MB
• Performance Evaluation Procedures
  October 1988 - PDF 3.25MB

Task 11 - Passive and Hybrid Solar Commercial Buildings

• Passive Solar Commercial and Institutional Buildings
  March 1994

Task 12 - Building Energy Analysis and Design Tools for Solar Applications

• ADELINE Software (Integrated Daylighting and Lighting Computer Design Tool)
  February 1994
• Atrium Models for the Analysis of Thermal Comfort and Energy Use
  March 1996 - PDF 38.54MB
• Building Energy Simulation Test (BESTEST) and Diagnostic Methods
  February 1995
• Empirical Validation of Thermal Building Simulation Programs Using Test Room Data Vol. 1
  September 1994 - PDF 7.12MB
• Empirical Validation of Thermal Building Simulation Programs Using Test Room Data Vol. 2
  September 1994 - PDF 3.83MB
• Empirical Validation of Thermal Building Simulation Programs Using Test Room Data Vol. 3
  September 1994 - PDF 7.84MB

Task 13 - Advance Solar Low Energy Buildings

• Solar Energy Houses: Strategies, Technologies, Examples
  1996

Task 14 - Advance Active Solar Energy Systems

• Advanced Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems
  October 1996 - PDF 2.08MB

Task 16 - Photovoltaics in Buildings

• Photovoltaics in Buildings: A Design Handbook for Architects and Engineers
  1995 - PDF 9.75MB

Task 20 - Solar Energy in Building Renovation

• Solar Renovation Demonstration Projects
  October 1998 - PDF 1.39MB

Task 28 - Solar Sustainable Housing

• Sustainable Solar Housing - 2 Volumes

Task 32 - Advanced Storage Concepts for Solar and Low Energy Buildings

• Thermal Energy Storage for Solar and Low Energy Buildings - State of the Art
  June 2005 - PDF 8.26MB

Task 33 - Solar Heat for Industrial Process

• Potential for Solar Heat in Industrial Processes
  2008 - PDF 1.93MB
• Process Heat Collectors
  2008 - PDF 0.84MB

Task 34 - Testing and Validation of Building Energy Simulation Tools

• Empirical Validations of Shading/Daylighting/Load Interactions in Building Energy Simulation Tools
  August 2007 - PDF 3.48MB
• International Energy Agency Building Energy Simulation Test and Diagnostic Method (IEA BESTEST)
  September 2008 - PDF 3.24MB

Task 37 - Advanced Housing Renovation with Solar & Conservation

• Advanced and Sustainable Housing Rennovation Handbook
  PDF 15.2MB

Task 39 - Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications

• Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications
  December 2012

Task 40 - Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings

• Evaluation Tool for Net Zero Energy Buildings: Application on Office Buildings
  March 2013 - PDF 0.29MB
• Modelling, Design, and Optimization of Net-Zero Energy Buildings
  March 2015
• Solution Sets for Net-Zero Energy Buildings
  April 2017
• Towards Net Zero Energy
  PDF 1.87MB

Task 41 - Solar Energy and Architecture

• T.41.B.3 Solar design of buildings for architects: Review of solar design tools
  July 2012 - PDF 11.46MB

Task 42 - Compact Thermal Energy Storage

• Compact Thermal Energy Storage: Material Development for System Integration
  August 2015 - PDF 0.2MB

Task 44 - Solar + Heat Pump Systems

• Solar and Heat Pump Systems for Residential Buildings
  August 2015

Task 46 - Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

• Best Practices for Solar Irradiance Measurements with Rotating Shadowband Radiometers
  August 2015 - PDF 3.11MB
• Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data for Solar Energy Applications
  February 2015 - PDF 8.71MB

Task 46 - Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

• Task 46: Best Practices: Solar Irradiance Measurements with Rotating Shadowband Irradiometers (Summary from SHC Newsletter)
  November 2015 - PDF 0.16MB

Task 47 - Solar Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings

• Lessons learned from 20 Non-Residential Building Renovations
  February 2015 - PDF 1.76MB
• Market Change: Upgrading of the non-residential building stock towards nZEB standard
  December 2014 - PDF 2.06MB
• Sustainable Refurbishments, School Buildings
  January 2015 - PDF 17.22MB

Task 47 - Solar Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings

• Report on Life cycle analysis
  January 2015 - PDF 9.97MB

Task 48 - Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling

• Final deliverable report on Heat Rejection Systems for solar cooling
  January 2014 - PDF 3.63MB
• Final Report on Pumps Efficiency and Adaptability
  December 2015 - PDF 4.03MB
• Final report on State of the art on new collectors & characterization for solar cooling
  December 2015 - PDF 0.42MB

Task 48 - Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling

• Report for self-detection on monitoring procedure
  January 2015 - PDF 5.07MB

Task 48 - Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling

• Final report Measurement and Verification Procedures
  January 2013 - PDF 3.44MB
• Final report on Contracting Models for Solar Thermally Driven Cooling and Heating Systems
  September 2014 - PDF 1.99MB
• Review of relevant international standards rating and incentive schemes
  January 2013 - PDF 1.43MB

Task 49 - Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications

• Process Intensification - Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility. 2nd Edition
  2013

Task 49 - Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications

• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A1.2 - Overheating prevention and stagnation handling in solar process heat applications
  January 2015 - PDF 1.69MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A1.3 - Process Heat Collectors - State of the Art and Available Medium Temperature Collectors
  May 2016 - PDF 1.39MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A2.1 - Comparison of process heat collectors with respect to technical and economic conditions
  April 2016 - PDF 1.48MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A3.1 - Guideline on testing procedures for collectors used in solar process heat
  November 2015 - PDF 1.52MB

Task 49 - Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications

• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B1 - Methodologies and Software Tools for Integrating Solar Heat into Industrial Processes
  February 2015 - PDF 1.66MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B2 - Integration Guideline
  February 2015 - PDF 3.12MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B3 - Updated Efficiency Finder
  December 2015 - PDF 1.24MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B4 - Catalogue of recommended components for advanced integration
  February 2016 - PDF 0.22MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B5 - Potential Enhancement of Solar Process Heat by Emerging Technologies
  March 2016 - PDF 0.89MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B6 - Integrating Solar Heat into Industrial Processes (SHIP)
  May 2016 - PDF 0.86MB

Task 49 - Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications

• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C2 - Overview and description of simulation tools for solar industrial process heat systems
  August 2015 - PDF 1.26MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C3 - Performance assessment methodology and simulation case studies
  March 2016 - PDF 0.65MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C4 - Best practise series of case study reports from demonstration projects
  August 2016 - PDF 1.89MB
• IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C5 - Potential studies on solar process heat worldwide
  October 2015 - PDF 0.61MB

Task 50 - Advanced Lighting Solutions for Retrofitting Buildings

• T50 B.6 Daylighting and electric lighting retrofit solutions - A source book of IEA SHC Task 50
  October 2016

Task 51 - Solar Energy in Urban Planning

• Approaches, Methods and Tools for Solar Energy in Urban Planning
  August 2018 - PDF 31.54MB

Task 51 - Solar Energy in Urban Planning

• Illustrative Prospective of Solar Energy in Urban Planning
  June 2017 - PDF 75.37MB
• Lesson Learned from Case Studies of Solar Energy in Urban Planning
  April 2018 - PDF 31.51MB
• National and International Comparison of Case Studies on Solar Energy in Urban Planning
  January 2018 - PDF 32.13MB

Task 51 - Solar Energy in Urban Planning

• State-of-the-Art of Education on Solar Energy in Urban Planning
  May 2017 - PDF 14.07MB
• State-of-the-Art of Education on Solar Energy in Urban Planning
  February 2018 - PDF 3.54MB
• Summer Schools on Solar Energy in Urban Planning (English)
  June 2017 - PDF 25.55MB
• Urban-based solar potential analysis – A teaching and learning tool for determining the solar energy use at the district scale
  December 2017 - PDF 2.11MB

Task 51 - Solar Energy in Urban Planning

• Innovative solar products for architectural integration
  June 2013

Task 52 - Solar Heat and Energy Economics in Urban Environments

• Influence of Sector Coupling on Solar Thermal Energy
  June 2018 - PDF 0.9MB

Task 52 - Solar Heat and Energy Economics in Urban Environments

• Urban energy concept Solar district heating Methodology and tools
  June 2018 - PDF 1.04MB

Task 53 - New Generation Solar Cooling Systems

• Task 53: Solar Cooling 2.0 A New Generation Is Growing Up
  November 2015 - PDF 0.17MB

Task 53 - New Generation Solar Cooling Systems

• Solar Heating and Cooling & Solar Air-Conditioning
  November 2018 - PDF 0.13MB
• The Solar Cooling Design Guide: Case Studies of Successful Solar Air Conditioning Design
  December 2017

Task 54 - Price Reduction of Solar Thermal Systems

• Task 54: Price Reduction of Solar Thermal Systems
  November 2015 - PDF 0.11MB

Task 56 - Building Integrated Solar Envelope Systems for HVAC and Lighting

• Task 56 Highlights 2018
  February 2019 - PDF 0.64MB

Task 60 - Application of PVT Collectors

• Existing PVT Systems and Solutions
  May 2020 - PDF 3.77MB

Task 60 - Application of PVT Collectors

• Design guidelines for PVT collectors
  July 2020 - PDF 0.36MB
• Status Quo of PVT Characterization
  October 2020 - PDF 2.71MB

Task 60 - Application of PVT Collectors

• Numerical simulation tools for PVT collectors and systems
  September 2020 - PDF 3.7MB

Task 60 - Application of PVT Collectors

• Performance Assessment of Example PVT-Systems
  December 2020 - PDF 1.3MB

Task 62 - Solar Energy in Industrial Water and Wastewater Management

• Solar Energy Industrial Water and Wastewater Management
  May 2023 - PDF 0.3MB

Task 62 - Solar Energy in Industrial Water and Wastewater Management

• TASK 62 HIGHLIGHTS 2022
  April 2023 - PDF 0.32MB

Task 63 - Solar Neighborhood Planning

• Design Guidelines for Urban Surface Uses in Solar Neighborhoods
  September 2024 - PDF 1.92MB
• Solar Neighborhood Planning
  May 2024 - PDF 0.25MB

Task 63 - Solar Neighborhood Planning

• TASK 63 HIGHLIGHTS 2022
  January 2023 - PDF 0.14MB

Task 64 - Solar Process Heat

• Calculation Method for Tracked Concentrating Solar Collectors - Technical Note
  May 2023 - PDF 0.29MB

Task 64 - Solar Process Heat

• Reference applications for renewable heat
  January 2021 - PDF 1.12MB

Task 64 - Solar Process Heat

• Collection of available solar process heat related national and trans-national research and funding programs
  April 2021 - PDF 0.74MB

Task 65 - Solar Cooling for the Sunbelt Regions

• TASK 65 HIGHLIGHTS 2022
  March 2023 - PDF 0.63MB

Newsletters

• Solar Update - December 2016
  December 2016 - PDF 2.09MB
• Solar Update - December 2018
  December 2018 - PDF 6.37MB
• Solar Update - December 2020
  December 2020 - PDF 4.94MB
• Solar Update - December 2021
  December 2021
• Solar Update - December 2022
  December 2022
• Solar Update - December 2023
  December 2023
• Solar Update - December 2024
  December 2024 - PDF 4.49MB
• Solar Update - July 2020
  July 2020 - PDF 7.11MB
• Solar Update - July 2021
  July 2021 - PDF 8.26MB
• Solar Update - July 2022
  July 2022
• Solar Update - July 2023
  July 2023
• Solar Update - July 2024
  July 2024
• Solar Update - May 2015
  May 2015 - PDF 3.33MB
• Solar Update - November 2015
  November 2015 - PDF 1MB

Task 67 - Compact Thermal Energy Storage Materials within Components within Systems

• Compact Thermal Energy Storage
  June 2023 - PDF 0.41MB

Task 67 - Compact Thermal Energy Storage Materials within Components within Systems

• TASK 67 HIGHLIGHTS 2022
  February 2023 - PDF 0.26MB

Task 68 - Efficient Solar District Heating Systems

• An adaptive short-term forecasting method for the energy yield of flat-plate solar collector systems
  December 2021

Workshops and Special Working Groups

• Dynamic Testing of Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems, Volumes A and B
  December 1992
• Performance and Durability Assessment of Optical Materials for Solar Thermal Systems
  January 2004

Solar Heat Worldwide

• Solar Heat Worldwide 2013
  June 2013 - PDF 1.33MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2016
  June 2016 - PDF 1.35MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2017
  April 2017 - PDF 3.55MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2018
  June 2018 - PDF 5.38MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2020
  June 2020 - PDF 6.39MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2021
  May 2021 - PDF 7.31MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2022
  June 2022 - PDF 7.36MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2023
  June 2023 - PDF 1.67MB
• Solar Heat Worldwide 2024
  June 2024 - PDF 9.25MB

IEA SHC Annual Reports

• IEA SHC Annual Report 2014
  May 2015 - PDF 3.67MB
• IEA SHC Annual Report 2015
  July 2016 - PDF 4.93MB
• IEA SHC Annual Report 2016
  June 2017 - PDF 2.32MB

General Programme Reports

• A Fundamental Look At Supply Side Energy Reserves For The Planet
  November 2015 - PDF 0.15MB
• Country Highlight: Spain - A Sunny Paradise Truncated by a Financial Crisis: The Building Code Experience
  November 2015 - PDF 0.24MB
• IEA SHC Publishes 2016 Edition of its Seminal Report – Solar Heat Worldwide
  June 2016 - PDF 0.17MB
• International Solar Energy Society Joins IEA SHC
  May 2016 - PDF 0.13MB
• Solar Thermal = Savings of Over 118 Million Tons of CO2 Annually
  November 2015 - PDF 0.15MB
• Technology Roadmap: Solar Heating and Cooling
  July 2012 - PDF 3.32MB
• The Potential of Solar Thermal Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Future
  February 2010 - PDF 3.94MB